The Last Best League: One Summer One Season One Dream (SIGNED COPY)
by Jim Collins
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0738209015
- ISBN 13
- 9780738209012
- Seller
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About This Item
NY: Da Capo Press, 2004. 2nd pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with autographed sticker. SIGNED BY COLLINS on the title page. Inscribed by the author on the front fly leaf. Clean, bright copy. Every summer, in ten small towns across Cape Cod, young college baseball players showcase their talents in hopes of making it to the "show." A vicious filter, the league has produced one out of every six major league players, from Nomar Garciaparra and Todd Helton to Jeff Bagwell and Barry Zito.In this brilliantly crafted narrative, Jim Collins chronicles a season in the life of the Chatham A's, perhaps the most celebrated team in the Cape Cod Baseball League. Set against a seemingly bucolic backdrop--a well-heeled resort town on the bend of the outer Cape -- the story charts the changing fortunes of a handful of players, all of whom battle slumps and self-doubt in an effort to impress major league scouts and make the playoffs. Several players go home with career-threatening injuries; one blue-chip prospect fulfills great expectations while another is dubbed "the biggest disappointment on the Cape." A pitcher hides an arm injury while negotiating a minor league contract; another leaves early to tend to his dying father. And nearly all look to the following year's major league draft as a barometer of their worth. Record # 383732
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 383732
- Title
- The Last Best League: One Summer One Season One Dream (SIGNED COPY)
- Author
- Jim Collins
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 2nd pr.
- ISBN 10
- 0738209015
- ISBN 13
- 9780738209012
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- Sports, Baseball, , .
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